Animal-trap.



PATENTED DEC. 13, 1904.

H. WILLIAMSON.

ANIMAL TRAP.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. a1. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

fi e?? 7141 44% 9 No.7'7'ifl461. Patented Deeember'13, T904.

NITE STATES PATENT OFFIGE.

HENRY WILLIAMSON, OF TORRTNGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO VICTOR GREENBERG, OF TORRINGTON, CONNEC ICUT.

ANIMAL-"TRAP" SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 777 ,461, dated December 13, 1904. Application filed October 31,1903. Serial No. 179,400. (NomodeL) T all whom it y 097006771! plurality of orifices 9, which communicate Be it known that I, HENRY NVILLIAMSON, a with compartments 10, formed by partitions I. citizen of the United States, residing at Tor- 11, extending from the sleeve to the flange.

rington, in the county of Litchfield and State The top of the body is provided adjacent its of Connecticut, have invented new and useful edge with a plurality of perforations 11, ar-

Improvements in Animal-Traps, of which the ranged in pairs, each paircommunicating with following is a specification. one of the compartments. Striking-wires 12, I My invention relates to animal-traps, more preferably V-shaped, are arranged in the con1- particularly to traps which are provided with partments to entrap a rodent and have their 10 a plurality of compartments having orifices ends projected through the perforations 11 and equipped with means adapted to imp'anel and provided with arms 13, adapted to extend rodents; and its primary object is to provide along the top of the body. The arms 13 are a new and useful device of this character which coiled-at points adjacent their ends to provide is adapted to have the orifices consecutively springs 141, which have their extremities em- 5 presented to a haunt or path most likely to be bedded in the top of the body and which are frequented by rodents, whereby the compartadapted to normally retain the striking-wires merit in which a rodent is entrapped may be elevated. The upper extremities of the strikmoved from the haunt or path and the next ing-wires are connected by rods 15, into encompartinent presented thereto. gagementwith which set-levers 16 are adapted 20 A further object of the invention is to proto be brought to retain the striking-wires in 7 Vide novel means for turning the body of the lowered or set position against the tension of trap to consecutively present the orifices to the springs let. The set-levers are preferably the entrance of a haunt or path. V-shaped and have their extremities bent to -VVith the above and other objects in view provide eyes 17, by means of which they are 5 theinvention consists of the construction,con1- hingedly connected to the top of the body to bination, and arrangement of parts hereinafbe swung into position to retain the strikingter fully described and claimed, and illustrated wires in set position. The set lovers are in the accompanying drawings, which disclose adapted to be engaged by triggers 18, fulthe preferred embodiment of my invention, crurned in slots 19, which communicate with 3 and in which the compartments to permit the bait-carrying Figure 1 is a perspective view of a trap conends of the triggers to be disposed therein in structed in accordance with my invention. alinement with the orifices.

Fig. 2 is a central sectional view thereof. Fig. The manner in which the striking-wires are 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the set released may be described 111 the following 35 wires. manner: A rodent to reach one of the baits 5 Referring to the drawings by reference-nuwill have to insert its head through one of the merals, 1 designates a base provided with a orifices into a compartment, thereby assumcentrally-arranged upstanding post 2 and coning a position between the striking-wire and centrically-arranged circular tracks 3 and i. I upper portion of the compartment. The

4 A body 5, which is preferably circular in conslightest disturbance of the bait will tilt the 9 tour, is mounted upon the tracks to rotate trigger upon its fulcrum and release the setthereon and about the post. The body is pro lever, permitting the striking-wire to be forvided with a centrally-disposed sleeve 6, vercibly elevated by the springs let. The elevatically arranged and adapted to fit over the tion of the striking-wires will imprison the 45 post 2. The post is provided at its base with rodent in a manner that is apparent. an annular flange 7, against which the lower It is desired in setting traps of this descripend of the sleeve is adapted to abut to space tion to place one of the orilices 9 into close the sleeve from the post and to guide the body proximity to the entrance of a haunt or path in its movement. The body is provided with known to be frequented by rodents, and also 5 an annular flange 8, which is provided with a to cause the compartment in which a rodent I00 is trapped to move from the haunt or path and cause the adjacent orifice to assume its position. To accomplish this, I provide a spring 20, which is adapted to cause the body to rotate about the post 2 to consecutively present each opening to a particular haunt or path. The spring 20 is adapted to encircle the post 2 and has one of its ends fastened thereto and its opposite end secured to the body 5. The set-levers are provided with rearwardly-projecting arms 21, which have their extremities downwardly bent. The bent ends are coiled intermediate their ends to provide yielding bolts 22, which are adapted to, when the striking-wires are in set position, yieldingly engage the edge of a disk-shaped keeper 23. The keeper is secured to the upper end of the post and horizontally disposed to present its edge to the bolts 22. The edge of the keeper is provided with an offset 24, which is adapted to be consecutively engaged by the bolts 22 to permit of the orifices being presented in the manner hereinbefore pointed out. When one of the set-levers is released in the manner hereinbefore pointed out, the bolt carried thereby is thrown upward out of engagement with the offset 2 by the upward movement of the rod 15. The disengagement of the offset by the particular bolt leaves the body free to be turned by the spring 21, which movement is stopped by the engagement of the ofiset by the bolt adjacent the one thrown out of engagement with the offset, and said movement is suflicient to place the adjacent orifice to the haunt or path. To set the trap, the body is turned about the post to Wind the spring, and one of the bolts 22 is thrown into engagement with the offset 2a to hold the body from being turned by the spring. After this the remaining bolts may be thrown into position about the keeper in the path of the offset.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a trap, a revolubly-mounted body, a plurality of entrapping means arranged on the body and adapted to be carried thereby during its rotation, means for rotating the body, and means for interrupting the rotation of the body to consecutively present each entrapping means to the same point.

2. In a trap, a revolubly-mounted body, a plurality of entrapping means arranged upon the body and adapted to be carried thereby during the rotation of the body, amechanism for imparting an intermittent rotary movement to the body to consecutively present each entrapping means to the same point. 3. In a trap, a post carried by the base, a body mounted upon the base to rotate about the post, a plurality of entrapping means arranged upon the body and adapted to be carried thereby during its rotation, means carried by the post to rotate the body, and means carried by each entrapping means to engage the post to prevent rotation of the body and to be disengaged therefrom to permit the body to have an intermittent rotary movement imparted thereto whereby each entrapping means is consecutively presented to the same point.

4. In a trap, a base, a post carried by the base, a body mounted upon the base to rotate about the post, a plurality of entrapping means arranged upon the body and adapted to be carried thereby during its rotation, means carried by the post to impart movement to the body, a keeper mounted upon the upper end of the post and having its edge provided with an offset, means carried by the entrapping means to engage the offset to prevent the body from having movement and to be disengaged therefrom to permit the body to have an intermittent rotary movement, whereby each entrapping means ispresented to the same point.

5. In a trap, a base provided with concentrically-arranged circular tracks and a vertically-disposed post arranged centrally upon the base, a body provided with compartments and mounted upon the said tracks to rotate about the post, a striking-wire mounted in each compartment, a trigger, a set-lever adapted to hold the striking-wire in set position, a keeper secured to the upper end of the post and having its edge provided with an offset, means carried by the post to cause the body to revolve, and arms secured to said levers and provided with a yielding bolt adapted to engage the offset to prevent the body from rotating and to be disengaged therefrom to permit the body to have an intermittent rotary movement, whereby each compartment is consecutively presented at the same point.

6. In a trap, a body mounted to be rotated, means for rotating the body, a plurality of entrapping means arranged upon the body and adapted to be, carried thereby during its rotation, and means carried by the entrapping means and adapted to interrupt the rotation of the body to consecutively present each entrapping means at the same point.

7. In a trap, a base, a body mounted on the base to be rotated, a keeper arranged on the base, a plurality of entrapping means arranged upon the body and adapted to be carried thereby during its rotation, means for rotating the body, and yielding means carried by the entrapping means to engage the keeper to prevent the body from having motion and to be disengaged therefrom to permit the body to have an intermittent rotary motion imparted thereto, whereby each entrapping means is presented at the same point.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY WILLIAMSON.

Witnesses:

JAMES MALLETTE, MAUDE DAVEY.

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